Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an aviator, author, inventor, explorer,and social activist. Lindbergh, then a 25-year old U.S. Air Mail pilot, emerged to almost instantaneous world fame as the result of his solo non-stop flight on May 20-21, 1927, from Roosevelt Field on New York’s Long island to Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 miles in the Spirit of St. Louis, a single- seat, single-engine monoplane (shown below). Lindberg, who was an officer in the U.S. Army reserve, was awarded the nations highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. He died in 1974 at age 72. .

Maria Schneider (Above), the French actress who was Marlon Brando’s young co-star in the steamy 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris," has died, her talent agency said. She was 58.

A representative of the Act 1 agency said Schneider died in Paris on Thursday "following a long illness," but declined to provide details.

Schneider was 19 when she starred opposite Marlon Brando in Bernardo Bertolucci’s racy "Last Tango in Paris." In it, she played a young Parisian woman who takes up with a middle-aged American businessman, played by Brando.

Throughout her career, Schneider appeared in more than two dozen films, most of them French. (AP)